Example sentences of "[was/were] just [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Judith they were just faces in a photograph . |
| 2 | They were just pawns in the grand design . |
| 3 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 4 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 5 | Skeletal arms lifted , one pointing ; eyes that were just holes in maggoty wood seemed to seek compassion from the human . |
| 6 | Traditional doughnuts were just lumps of dough with jam in the middle until , in 1847 , the Americans invented the ring doughnut . |
| 7 | ‘ To them we were just part of their extended families . ’ |
| 8 | That the compliments were just part of the softening-up process . ’ |
| 9 | the events were just part of a programme of special attractions running until the end of September . |
| 10 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |
| 11 | unless we were just kind of indulge in a conversation and we did n't see it |
| 12 | ‘ I thought they were just gulls at first , ’ said Edward . |
| 13 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 14 | A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust , heading down towards the charcoal city . |
| 15 | Marriages then , like palaces and warm fires and good soles on one 's shoes , were just refinements for the rich . |
| 16 | They were just blobs of ink — but we made them think |
| 17 | Almost all the hymns were just translations of English hymns , working very much on English rhythm and rhyme-principle . |
| 18 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 19 | They were just sort of as I said , they used this celluloid . |
| 20 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 21 | People who were just names on laws ( Max Planck , Louis de Broglie , Werner Heisenberg , Paul Dirac … ) come alive in these pages as the reader discovers how each learned his trade and how the different characters interacted with one another . |
| 22 | I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels . |
| 23 | They were just pieces in Matyre 's game . |
| 24 | It was hard to tell because his face was masked with ribbons of caked blood , and his eyes were just slits in a puffy mess of red and black bruises . |
| 25 | My girl-friend and I were just making-up after a quarrel . |
| 26 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 27 | David was just hours from joining the Royal Engineers ( ‘ I 'd passed the medicals and everything ’ ) when Pool manager Billy Horner offered full time terms . |
| 28 | I soon found , however , that their grumpiness was just part of the Parisienne package , and indeed it often vanishes on closer acquaintance . |
| 29 | Liberalizing emigration was just part of Ceauşescu 's strategy to gain acceptance in the West and thereby access to its storehouses of wealth , technology and industrial secrets . |
| 30 | The palace complex was just part of the Conducator 's plans to transform Romania as a whole . |